Google has added the newly open-sourced VP8 video codec to the latest developer-channel build of its Chrome browser.
The codec is already part of developer builds from Mozilla and Opera, and it was rolled into Chromium, the open source incarnation of Chrome, in late May. But this marks its debut in Chrome itself. Version 6.0. …

Yes, really really

slaps forehead

Looking forward to see if this becomes the new standard

FWIW, my iMac runs Firefox as my primary browser. I tried Chrome on the iMac, but that didn't work all that well. My Windows 7 desktop computer, on the other hand, uses Chrome as the primary browser. Safari, in my experience, hasn't been all that great. Especially on Windows.

Safari on windows

I post this after having just futzed with this browser -FF on win 7- to make sure that VLC plays stuff instead of quicktime. One of the reg's dodgy camera reviews was terminally slow to load a movie, and QT froze my browser while it was waiting. Had to kill the damn thing to be able to browse again.